Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Spectral Attitudes Comments

Rating: 2.8

I attach no importance to life
I pin not the least of life's butterflies to importance
I do not matter to life
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Andre Breton
fog
COMMENTS
Susan Williams 26 April 2018

Sounds like a Dada poem except... except there is such odd beauty in each line that does not seem to have anything to do with the line before or after it... except somehow I feel they do. A very surreal kind of beauty going on here. I must read more by him

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Edward Kofi Louis 26 April 2018

Stage! ! Sage; The bars are in the cage. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Gajanan Mishra 26 April 2018

untie the knots of love, good

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Kumarmani Mahakul 26 April 2018

A well depicted poem shared here astutely.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 26 April 2018

Such a great poem by Andre Breton👍👍👍

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Dr Antony Theodore 26 April 2018

And I watched over myself and my thoughts like a night watchman in an immense factory Keeping watch alone great expressions all through out the poem, thank u dear poet. tony

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Wind And Little Else 09 March 2016

"The circus always enchants the same tramlines." Indeed.

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Dutendra Chamling 12 November 2015

...A woman pledged herself there one day This woman became so bright that I could no longer see her With these eyes which have seen my own self burning... Beautiful.

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Ramesh T A 01 September 2015

Opposing attitudes and splitting of it in parts this poem deals in detail with minute observation in life!

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Also the futility of striving for achievement in waking normality. I attach no importance to life, I do not matter to life.

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K.c. Ford 01 September 2015

Seems to jump all over the place. Too spaced out for me.

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Kim Barney 01 September 2015

Me, too.

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He was the founder of the Surrealist movement.

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M Asim Nehal 02 December 2018

Yes I agree. It happens with some poets

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